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Third Culture Time and Place: Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 49, Number 3, September 2016
- pp. 39-53
- 10.1353/mos.2016.a630343
- Article
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The dislocation of characters causes narrative discontinuity in Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table. For third culture characters who move through a series of international locations without a specific attachment or commitment to any one, identity is defined by geographical eras and narrative is structured according to geography rather than chronology.